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Medical Xpress / Severe flooding raises deadly overdose risk in rural Appalachia, study finds, and the harm lasts for years
When she went to sleep on July 27, 2022, McKayla wasn't worried about the storm that was raging outside her trailer in southeastern Kentucky. Intense storms were frequent in summer. While the creek in front of her home would ...
Medical Xpress / Graduate researcher leads landmark methamphetamine treatment systematic review
Publishing a paper in a top-tier journal is a major accomplishment for faculty members. For first-year graduate students, it's almost unheard of. Alexandra N. Johansen, a psychology Ph.D. student at the University of Kentucky ...
Tech Xplore / The UK and Google are testing changes to flight paths to tackle aviation's climate impact
Hundreds of commercial flights will be told to change their paths over the northeastern Atlantic Ocean during the next two winters to show how minor altitude adjustments can reduce aviation's climate impact.
Medical Xpress / Your back cracked, but what does the sound mean? A physiologist explains
Why does my back crack? It sounds like such a simple question. But the more I think about it, the more fascinating it gets.
Phys.org / How 35% of US employees are left on the margins
You've heard of gig workers, freelancers and temporary employees. But do you know about marginal workers? Accounting for about one in six U.S. jobs, it's a huge category of people who are going nowhere fast in the workplace—and ...
Phys.org / Boys are rarely taught to be caring. If they were, we could better prevent domestic violence
Following another series of alleged killings of women across Australia, the country has once again found itself asking familiar questions: How many more women have to die before we act? What more should governments do? Why ...
Medical Xpress / New mechanistic insights into the role of inflammatory molecules in cancer progression
Immune checkpoint inhibitors have revolutionized cancer treatment, yet many colorectal tumors remain resistant. Even among patients who initially respond, more than half eventually develop resistance, highlighting the need ...
Medical Xpress / Rare C-to-G mutations occurred at an unexpectedly high frequency during emergence of SARS-CoV-2 delta variant
SARS-CoV-2 possesses a characteristic surface protein, the spike protein, which plays a central role in viral entry into host cells. The evolution of spike protein mutations has been an important factor in the emergence of ...
Medical Xpress / Gender gap in health care for female users of performance and image-enhancing drugs
A study of women who use performance- and image-enhancing drugs (PIEDs), such as steroids and peptides, suggests health care has not kept pace, with most research on the topic focused on men.
Medical Xpress / Early career researchers model West Nile virus corridor across Germany from 2019 to 2025
Researchers at the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM) are using a range of mathematical models to calculate the expected spread of West Nile virus in Germany. They are also developing forecasting models ...
Phys.org / Ruby-forming mineral found by Mars rover hints at violent impacts
So far, most of the minerals found on Mars tell a story of lava poured out by ancient volcanoes, followed by long stretches in which water trickled through and slowly reshaped the rock. However, some rocks scattered across ...
Phys.org / Unusual superconductivity could emerge in valley-imbalanced rhombohedral graphene
Superconductors are materials in which electrical current flows with a resistance of zero, typically below specific temperatures. In conventional superconductors, this state of matter emerges when two electrons bind together ...
